Tea Party Trounces Congress in the Eyes of Americans
Rasmussen just released a poll that shows Americans by large numbers believe 1) Tea Party members understand the issues facing America better than members of Congress, and 2) their positions on those issues align more closely with those of the Tea Party than with those of congressional members: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey [...]
Coffee, Anyone?
The Coffee Party. The Washington Post reports that a lot of progressives are frustrated with the widespread success of the Tea Party movement across the country (and about to debut in Great Britain) and have started their own movement in answer to us. From their home page: MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to [...]
Republican Senate Leadership survey needs a facelift
The Republican Senate Leadership Committee has sent out their “Official Republican Party Survey” which repeatedly says, “Do Not Destroy” and “this survey document must be accounted for upon completion of this project” and comes complete with its own official registration number. They make it sound like the census for goodness sakes. The survey is broken [...]
Independents overwhelmingly support Tea Party
In a recent poll released by Investor’s Business Daily, it shows that seventy-five (75%) of Independents have a favorable view of the Tea Party movement. This is great news for us. This just goes to show that our ideas and platform are mainstream. People are listening, we just need to keep sharing what we are [...]
Is the Tea Party a "far right" movement?
This is a question that is continually asked in the media and blogs. It seems to be asked even more with the hype over Sarah Palin speaking at the Tea Party Nation Convention this weekend. Political pundits are eager to place us in a category to explain us away. Republicans and Democrats like the label [...]
The Tea Party is Over
It would seem that we have really hit the big time! We are now drawing the direct attention of the Unions. A website has been set up called, “The Tea Party is Over“. They say their mission is to “prevent the Tea Party’s dangerous ideas from gaining legislative traction.” God forbid our ideas trump their [...]
A Tea Party in Richmond
The Lobby Day rally was mentioned by the Washington Post again, this time in the Express Night Out newsletter. There’s not much content, but the article was a fair description of the events (except for the low attendance number, but we’re all accustomed to that). We tried to locate the article online for posting/linking, but were [...]
Tea Parties Start to Flex their Muscles
We believe the saying goes something like this “The best defense is a good offense”. With that in mind, it appears that Tea party activists around the country have decided it isn’t enough to fight the establishment: The Tea Party movement ignited a year ago, fueled by anti-establishment anger. Now, Tea Party activists are trying [...]
GOP Ignoring Tea Party Movement?
Tea Party movements across the country feel that the GOP may be ignoring the movement or at least delaying until the republican organization can figure out how to deal with the Tea Parties: “I have called into the RNC many times, and they still haven’t called me back,” said Dale Robertson, head of TeaParty.org, which [...]
